HRES 1241 IH110th CONGRESS2d SessionH. RESEH
H. 1241Congratulating Ensign DeCarol Davis upon serving as the valedictorian of the Coast Guard Academy's class of 2008 and becoming the first African-American female to earn this honorRes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESJune 4, 2008Mr1241
In the House of Representatives, U. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself and MrS.TOM DAVIS of Virginia) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
RESOLUTIONCongratulating Ensign DeCarol Davis upon serving as the valedictorian of the Coast Guard Academy's class of 2008 and becoming the first African-American female to earn this honor,
July 22, 2008.
Whereas Ensign DeCarol Davis is the first African -American female to serve as the valedictorian of the Coast Guard Academy;
Whereas Ensign Davis is from Woodbridge, Virginia, and was the 2004 Forest Park High School valedictorian;
Whereas Ensign Davis's academic achievement’s academic and military achievements at the Coast Guard Academy in a class of overmore than 200 cadets earned her status as thethe honor of graduating as valedictorian of the Coast Guard Academy'’s class of 2008;
Whereas Ensign Davis'’s accomplishments include being selectedselection as a 2007 Truman Scholar, receipt of the 2008 Connecticut Technology Council Women of Innovation Award recipient,, selection as a 2006 Arthur Ashe, Jr. Women's Basketball First Team Sports Scholar, and selection to the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District I College Women'’s Basketball First Team;
Whereas Ensign Davis'’s community outreach during her four years at the Coast Guard Academy significantly impacted the lives of others, including those at a local elementary school where Ensign Davis wrote and directed a play that introduced engineering as a career to the students;
Whereas the Coast Guard Academy serves a critical role in training the future leaders of the Coast Guard to protect ports, waterways, coastal security, and the marine transportation system from an act of terrorism; secure our borders against aliens seeking to unlawfully enter the United States, illegal drugs, firearms, and weapons of mass destruction at ports, waterways, and throughout the marine transportation system; prevent human smuggling operationscarry out the service’s missions, including protecting the lives and safety of those at ports, waterways, and throughoutsea and ensuring the safe operation of the marine transportation system; maintain defense readiness to rapidly deploy defensive port operations and security operations and environmental defense operations; coordinate efforts and intelligence with Federal, State, and local agencies to deter, detect, and respond to the threat of terrorism atprotecting the United States ports, on waterways, and throughout the marine transportation system; prevent Osama Bin Laden, al Qaeda, or any other terrorist or terrorist organization from attackcoastal communities and defending the United States or anyhomeland and United States person; and protect thenational interests against hostile acts; enforcing United States or anymaritime sovereignty and United States person from threats posed by weapons of mass destruction or other threats tolaw, international conventions, and treaties including securing our borders against unlawful aliens and drugs; safeguarding United States marine resources; and responding to the threat of terrorism at ports and incidents of national securityignificance, including transportation security incidents, to preserve life and to ensure the continuity of commerce and critical port and waterway functions;
Whereas the Coast Guard Academy has few women and people of color within itsminorities within the cadet population;
Whereas on April 24, 2008, the House of Representatives approved H.R. 2830, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2008, which included several provisions to improve the diversity of the Coast Guard Academy; and
Whereas Ensign Davis gave her valedictorian address on May 21, 2008: Now, therefore, therefore be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) congratulates Ensign DeCarol Davis for becoming the first African -American femaleAmerican to serve as the valedictorian of the Coast Guard Academy; and
(2) encourages the Coast Guard Academy to seek diverse candidates for the cadet corps at the Coast Guard Academy and to continue to train and graduate cadets of a quality that the Coast Guard needs to fulfill alleach of its homeland and nonhomeland security missions.
U.S. Congress - Text of H.Res.1241 as Engrossed in House Congratulating Ensign DeCarol Davis upon serving as the valedictorian of the Coast Guar...
